Re: Problem with cryptoapi
"Ashwani" <ashwani@stellarinfo.com> wrote in message
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Hi, i am using cryptoapi to encrypt my files. The files are decrypted
if i decrypt them on the same system with same user, but if i try to
decrypt them with different user or on different system, decryption
fails. The function i am using to encrypt files are:-
CryptAcquireContext();
CryptGetUserKey( );
CryptGetUserKey( );
GeneratePrivateKey();
CryptGenKey();
etc.
The fuction failing on decryption is
CryptImportKey();
Show your code, particularly key generation and key exchange. The use of
CryptGetUserKey is suspicious - the keys it generates are different for
every user on every machine.
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